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DDoS protection at the server, not just at the edge Most Magento sites end up behind Cloudflare. It's the path of least resistance — set up the DNS, enable proxying, switch on the WAF, done. For a lot of sites it's enough. But edge protection comes with its own costs: a network hop on every [...]

“Managed Hosting” Doesn’t Mean What It Used To For eCommerce stores running on Magento, Adobe Commerce, or mission critical custom apps on Shopify Plus — the definition needs to change. A few years ago, “managed hosting” was a meaningful upgrade. It meant someone else handled the server: patching the OS, monitoring disk space, restarting services [...]

The biggest myth in the Magento Agency world is to pass traffic through cloudflare. Don’t get me wrong – I am not a cloudflare critic. Indeed, we have customers on their business and enterprise accounts that we recommended. The issue is that cloudflare is not a magic wand many agencies make to believe it is. [...]

When hosting Magento on AWS, RDS is often assumed to be the default database. At luroConnect we do not use RDS and have saved thousands of $ for many of our customers, each month. We wrote up a RDS vs EC2 focussed on Magento - born out of migrating a customer from RDS to EC2. [...]

Worried about Magento major version upgrade risk and downtime? Customers have some basic requirement During go live have a very short downtime. Give me a way to rollback when there is a problem in the upgrade Here is a blueprint that we follow. Create a parallel environment for new staging and new prod Make sure [...]

This holiday season, Magento merchants - let us declare freedom from codefreeze. Deploy-at-will. It is 2025 and this is not an unreasonable expectation. No more code freeze before the holiday season. Heck, changes are needed right during a sale. A UI update, a new marketing plugin integration. Before you get that freedom, you need to [...]

At luroConnect, we’re more than just a managed hosting provider — we’re your growth partner. Our goal is to create a collaborative ecosystem where agencies, consultants, and digital solution providers can thrive alongside us. Whether you build eCommerce stores, offer digital strategy, or manage client infrastructure, our partner program is built to support your growth [...]

Introduction to Content Security Policy Content Security Policy (CSP) is a HTTP header that promises to enhance security and prevent cartjack type of attacks or atleast make them difficult. A popular attack vector is for malicious javascript code to be added to your webpage to skim credit card or other user data as a visitor [...]

What is php op-cache? Php is an interpretive language. The interpreter has to read each line of php code, parse and tokenize it – i.e. convert to internal format also called opcode or operation codes. It can then interpret by “running” the opcodes. With php 8, the JIT changes it a bit. A php project [...]

proxysql is a small infrastructure change that can bring about a huge performance difference in large traffic Magento and Wordpress websites. What is proxysql? Proxysql is a high performance mysql proxy. As a proxy it sits between the application and mysql. mysql requests from the application are routed to the proxy, which in turn routes the [...]